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When you enter the Freelancer side door, the air lock vents the entire hip. Will this be addressed in a rework?

TL;DRKirk Tome says ships with this airlock problem will eventually need fixing, without a full rework, and a life support system that repressurizes ships is planned, though no schedule is given.

Kirk TomeLead Systems Designer

Yes, so we will need to eventually address all ships that have this issue. And I don't believe that an entire rework is required. We will need to specifically address the area that encompasses the airlock itself so that it's a better mechanism, so that we don't have to re-art the entire ship, but just make it so that there is a way to not vent the entire contents of the internal atmosphere into space. So I don't know exactly where it is on the schedule, but it is something that we need to address, that we'll put on the schedule in the backlog, and we'll fix that up.

Kirk TomeLead Systems Designer

There's something else that we'll need to address that will be on the ship features team, which is that we'll need to make an item that we have a concept of but haven't implemented yet, which is our life support system. So once we create this life support system that's able to apply atmosphere into a space such as the interiors of spaceships that are connected via our room system. So our room system is connected to the doors. So that's why currently when you open a door, all your atmosphere vents out into space. That's great, but we have no way to repressurize the ships. So once you open a door, especially on one like the Reliant, which is basically nothing but a giant door, once you open it up for cargo, that means that the ship no longer has atmosphere. So we will make this item that will get connected just like any other internal ship item. And we'll have properties in it, things like how fast can it repressurize the ship and provide a safe environment for you to walk around without your helmet. Put that inside ships and then connect that to the room system. And so it's the same exact thing we do for power and connecting all the pipes, so that once you do open a ship in space and you're hosed, you could put it back to a state where it should be, with oxygen.

Calling All Devs›Life Support & Phoenix Update·
Published on this date.4 Jun 2018